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[angrypie]

Well, the core ISA is basically set in stone (no pun intended), but it's still a long shot to assume validation will catch everything before it hits production....

[angrypie]

Nobody could be so incompetent as to fuck up with those instructions, r-right guys?...

[angrypie]

You don't get it, do you? On the internet, everything, absolutely everything, can be faked, including reputation and credibility.

Anyway,...

[angrypie]

I suppose you're old enough to remember the rules of the internet and how they mock the fact you can't tell truth from falsehood on a medium that accepts...

[angrypie]

People in your head don't count....

[angrypie]

I don't think anyone expects anything positive from me. I'm also in no obligation of fulfilling whatever expectations people have about me overall....

[angrypie]

From dream to dream
We have always been
Like an ever flowing stream...

[angrypie]

http://endsoftpatents.org

[angrypie]

coder What I mean is: nobody cares about software optimization when a half-assed optimization for the lowest common denominator (Intel/NVIDIA) is simpler...

[angrypie]

Good. Software patents are bullshit anyway.

The sooner we get rid of them, the better....

[angrypie]

No, unless you install Mesa from git.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1751884#c8...

[angrypie]

Look in the mirror....

[angrypie]

Yeah, I could edit some Italian fascist/nazi propaganda poster for server-side decorations.

(I don't care about either though. I'm not taking...

[angrypie]

They can still open-source the parts they own. Or do it like OpenSolaris/illumos: release closed-source code as binary and replace it later.
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[angrypie]

I wasn't implying that either. I was pointing out that a close-to-metal, single-task OS for single-core CPUs already exists, but people migrated from...

[angrypie]

Adjective, adjective, adjective....

[angrypie]

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[angrypie]

You have no clue what projection really is.

You said it that way because there's something about classrooms that bothers you. No matter what...

[angrypie]

I'm sorry you were so bullied in high school that you think everything is a classroom....

[angrypie]

I bet it takes a gargantuan amount of reverse engineering to load unmodified drivers as complex as GPU drivers. NVIDIA would also curbstomp them as soon...